> Thanks Luis. added my notes next to yours. > > Hi, Michal- > Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Some comments in-line: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Michal Lester <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors > > survey: > > > > > > Wikimedia Israel conducted an editors’ survey in August among HEWP > editors. > > The questionnaire was based on the WMNL survey in order to to enable > > international learning in the future. > > > > The survey had two target audiences: active editors (with voting rights > > [1]) > > and contributors. The questionnaire was the same but distributed > > differently. Active editors got an invitation to participate on their > talk > > page, while contributors were invited through a “Sitenotice”. Some 151 > > active editors and 171 contributors participated. > > > > *Gender*: Almost 20% of the respondents were women. > > > > Among the active editors, only 10% were women whereas 29% of the > > contributors were women. The explanations (open answers) for limited > > diversity among the editors ranged from a negative work atmosphere to a > > conservative point of view about gender roles. > > > > Editors in general did not find the low participation of women negatively > > affects the coverage of topics in Wikipedia. > > > Did this vary by gender? i.e., do both men and women agree that low > participation affects coverage? >
We checked again the data and there is difference but not significant. But most of the women (82%) think that low participation of women has an impact on the working environment. While men (44%) think that it has only some impact. > > > > Answering a question about how > > to increase the participation of women, respondents offered workshops, > > encouraging high school students to participate, expanding the wiki-women > > group and providing general support. > > > > *New editors*: A large majority of editors acknowledged that new editors > > wanted to contribute to HEWP. They recognized the importance of a > > continuous arrival of new editors and felt that new editors were welcome. > > > > Did this vary by age of editors? i.e., did new editors agree that new > editors were welcome? :) > Yes but.... 44% of the contributors agree that new editors were welcome. 23% do not agree with the saying. Only 31% of contributors are new editors (less than a year) so it is hard to say because we do not analyze the newbies' answers apart from the contributors. > > > > *Work Atmosphere*: 34% of the respondents reported that they were > satisfied > > with the work atmosphere on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Only 5.5% of the > editors > > were not satisfied with it at all. However, 46% noted that there was a > > large number of conflicts. Active editors (66%) reported such conflicts > > more than contributors (29%). Almost 46% of the active editors stated > that > > they felt like they were in a conflict in the past six months, while only > > 29% of contributors expressed the same. 61% of the editors indicated that > > conflicts were either mostly or sometimes resolved in a good way. > > > > Interesting! > > > > Ideology, worldviews and egos were considered to play a major role in the > > development of conflicts. Contributors also mentioned lack of patience > from > > the active editors. > > > > > *Wikimedia Israel*: 60% of the respondents are familiar with Wikimedia > > Israel. As expected active editors are more acquainted with WMIL than > > contributors. Among them, 78% agree with the statement that WMIL provides > > practical support to editors. > > > > That's terrific. > > > > The survey provides important information for the HEWP editors’ community > > and for Wikimedia Israel. > > Wikimedia Israel will learn the data and use it to develop better support > > for editors, contributors and newbies. > > > > Please do keep us up to date on this; it would be very interesting to see a > model for transforming data into action. (My own department has been > thinking about this in light of our recent hire of a survey specialist; > hopefully something for us to keep improving on across the movement.) > > Luis > Michal _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
